Publications by authors named "Eerika Keskitalo"
Objective: Comorbidities are common and affect the prognosis of patients with interstitial lung diseases, but few previous studies have investigated patients with asbestosis.
Methods: We collected comorbidities and death causes of 116 patients with asbestosis treated in Oulu University Hospital. Causes of death were confirmed by autopsy in 68% of the cases.
Objectives: Our aim was to investigate the pulmonary function test (PFT) results of patients with asbestosis and determine whether baseline PFTs and the risk-predicting models such as gender, age and physiologic (GAP) variables model and composite physiologic index (CPI) would be useful in predicting survival in these patients.
Methods: Demographics and PFTs of 100 patients with asbestosis were evaluated. The survival difference between the GAP stages was determined with Kaplan-Meier survival curves with statistical significance analysed with log-rank test.
BAL cell differential counts of 133 therapy naive ILD patients and 43 patients during acute exacerbation of ILD (AE-ILD) were retrospectively evaluated. In the 20 patients who underwent BAL both at baseline and during an AE-ILD, there was an increase in neutrophils but a decrease in macrophages and eosinophils in the BAL obtained during AE-ILD. A detectable number of basophils at the baseline was a novel risk factor for earlier death and the occurrence of AE-ILD.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjectives: To determine cell differential counts and the number of asbestos bodies (ABs) in bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) fluid obtained from patients with asbestosis, and to correlate the results with their survival.
Methods: The BAL cell differential counts and ABs from 91 patients with asbestosis were determined. The BAL cell differential counts were analysed in relation to smoking status.